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What a trove of diaries from Amsterdam during World War Two taught Nina Siegal about history and how we remember the Holocaust.

It was neither the story of the Jews of the Netherlands, nor the history of their persecutors, nor exclusively the resistance story. They tend to be more faithful to a Calvinist tradition of stoicism and spare design, and the NIOD building flies in the face of those principles. How it felt to live through it, through the eyes of individuals from every walk of life. He said the range of the collection was vast. “We all know the who, what, when, and where of the Holocaust, but the why is a mystery still,” she had told me. The thought played through my head again and again as I spoke to Kok and Somers. Of course that was right; even in January 1943, most Jews in the Netherlands didn’t know that the edict that they must sew the yellow Star of David into all their outerwear was a sign of far worst to come. A week later, I visited the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam for the first time to interview two researchers, René Kok and Erik Somers, who had curated the photography exhibition. They were living history forwards, day by day, moment by moment, attempting to enjoy and go on with their lives, in spite of the mounting persecution, increasingly stringent regulations, and deportations to an foreseeable future. Some suspected as much, and refused to wear the symbol, and some non-Jews wore it in solidarity with the Jews to show their overlords that they didn’t approve of this method of branding. They looked gloriously happy, maybe even in love, but on the lapel of each of their winter coats was a Star of David. I remarked as much to Judith Cohen, the director of the photography archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C., during an interview a few days later.

I recently held Pitt Stops – informal roadside chats – right throughout the Hinkler electorate to chat with locals and find out what issues are affecting ...

And thirdly, people are supportive of a nuclear industry, particularly in light of the AUKUS announcement for nuclear submarines. However, the only thing that’s changed is the colour. It’s great to get out in the community and hear from you.

Ben Alderson-Day explores what the presence of the unseen other can tell us about ourselves.

In Western societies, we are used to the idea of a unitary, consistent self—the core of us that never changes. In this way, the new science of presence isn’t about a mysterious “other,” after all. Lots of people with [Parkinson’s](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26733937/) have feelings of presence as part of the condition, and this makes them particularly susceptible to the phantom touches of the robot. [2006](https://www.epfl.ch/labs/lnco/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/2006_Brugger_C_polyopic-heautoscopy-case-report-and-review-of-the-literature.pdf) study, a 41-year-old man, whom the study called “PH,” presented to a hospital clinic complaining of fatigue, dizziness, and seizures. It’s even part of some of the newer There’s [now evidence](https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/psychological-medicine/article/varieties-of-felt-presence-three-surveys-of-presence-phenomena-and-their-relations-to-psychopathology/C7DD60644076559D5685D51226693E5D) that people who hear voices (or have auditory hallucinations) also describe high rates of felt presence—literally voices than can be there without speaking. [Since 2014](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25447995/), they have used a robot to induce feelings of presence in healthy individuals and clinical disorders, such as Parkinson’s disease. [examples of presence](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0010440X84900075) in some of the first textbooks of psychiatry. This figure mirrored his body position, and when he tried to look at him, he looked away; PH felt as if “ [they shared the same soul.](https://www.epfl.ch/labs/lnco/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/2006_Brugger_C_polyopic-heautoscopy-case-report-and-review-of-the-literature.pdf)” Beyond the man stood a woman, again mirroring PH, and beyond that, some girls; he called them his “family.” After a few days the image of these figures receded, but the feeling of their presence remained. The robot works to disrupt your sensory expectations: Whenever we make a movement, our brains are thought to make a set of predictions about what will happen to our senses. He was a key member of the Society of Psychical Research, which was set up to examine the truth behind telepathy, spiritualism, and apparitions of the night. Contemporary neurology, cognitive neuroscience, and psychiatry shows us that such presences truly belong to us because they are linked to how our bodies and minds give us a sense of self.

The latest Housing Dashboard shows Tasmanians are waiting an average time of almost 80 weeks for social housing – the highest wait time on record. The.

The fact is that when Labor was last in government, 2300 Tasmanians were on the list, waiting on average 21 weeks – and almost a decade of Liberal government has created the mess we are now in. The housing wait list has inched higher – now sitting on 4,557, with an average wait time of 79.2 weeks. [Housing Dashboard](#) shows Tasmanians are waiting an average time of almost 80 weeks for social housing – the highest wait time on record.

IRVINE, Calif. – The Pepperdine men's and women's track teams continued to climb the all-time list after competing at the Vince O'Boyle Track and Field ...

(Mill Valley, Calif./Marin Catholic HS) competed in the men's 200m finishing in a time of 22.28. Champion HS) ran the women's 5,000m in a time of 19:48.27. The Waves will have a couple weeks off, before competing at the Mt. Ortman, Parsio, Rocco and Peterson represented the Waves in the women's 4x400m relay with a time of 4:16.44. In the women's 200m, sophomore Whitaker had a first-place showing in his heat in a time of 2:03.00. [Ryan Fabian](/sports/track-and-field/roster/ryan-fabian/4168) Hemphill notches his name higher on the all-time list from 10th to second. In the men's 400m, junior [Ryan Hemphill](/sports/track-and-field/roster/ryan-hemphill/4149) Miller's time was 1.38 seconds away from the school record, which is currently held by head coach Miller also moved her name from sixth on the all-time list to third.

Both offer lessons on how organizations can pivot and take on new relevance. Both are a window into the kind of leadership that encourages innovation. Consider ...

But when a salesman visiting a client knocked over a cup of coffee onto a blueprint, he quickly grabbed the sample to wipe up the spill and found it erased the blueprint! He relayed his discovery to leadership, which led directly to a partnership with P&G and the creation of a massive new product category. Both Play-Doh and Viagra never would have happened if the CEOs of each company hadn’t become fierce advocates. Both the Play-Doh sister-in-law and the chemists deep in the bowels of Pfizer played the role of “expert companion,” sensing opportunities that leadership did not. Play-Doh and Viagra would have died had leadership not responded to the ideas offered by others. “Yet I was able to push back against a strong and publicly stated opinion from the top leadership to rally.” It used the same factory, the same extruders, even the same can, just with a different label—and voila! It thrived for decades, but by the 1950s, when people shifted to electric and gas stoves, the family-run company was on the verge of bankruptcy. It’s particularly relevant now, at a time when the average lifespan of a company is only about 10 years, and businesses are still struggling to figure out what will be the “new normal.” Both are a window into the kind of leadership that encourages innovation. The Power of Reinvention in Life and Work, I took a deep dive into great corporate comebacks, to understand what lessons they may offer for the rest of us. The stories behind both Play-Doh and Viagra provide insight into why some businesses and brands disappear, while others are reimagined in ways that propel them to even greater success.

Allison Baum Gates is a general partner at early-stage venture capital fund SemperVirens, and the author of Breaking into Venture. One night, a policeman is ...

Commonwealth Bank of Australia's run out of patience at bombed-out beauty and skincare roll up BWX, deciding it won't be relaxing covenants for a fifth time ...

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In Einstein's general theory of relativity, time changes in relation to dense objects. Continuing with the viscous fluid analogy, this means that the viscosity ...

A presentist says that the only aspect of time one can experience is the present, as the past is no longer present, and the future is indeterminate, and so also can be said not to exist. A more compelling answer to the uncertainties of the future is inertia or heat. Time is a kind of modelling, and a model is distinct from the thing represented. Rather, we use the idea of time to order a succession of states and to compare durations. The past and the future are not physical places where we can go, and if they’re just arbitrary constructs to make sense of time, what can be inferred is that time is the present, and hence, we are time. We tend to make sense of time in terms of the past, present and future, which are constructs of our consciousness to make sense of our experiences and memories. We can never tell in what ways reality as it exists in itself independent of experience is spatial and temporal, but only that the sensed world of appearance must be so for us. Entropy is part of the life-cycle of the creation and death of the universe. Yet we can, in the present, imaginatively appreciate the nature and immensity of time outside our experience. We define the second as the basic unit of time, but what is a second? We can recall or come to know of our past, or that of human history, while living in the present and anticipating the future. It is this observed sequence of events that generates, and indeed defines, the passage of time.